Carola Susani (born 1965) is an Italian writer. She was born in Marostica (Vicenza). She published her first novel Il libro di Teresa (Teresa’s Book) in 1995. Her most recent book Eravamo bambini abbastanza (We Were Young Enough, 2012) won the Lo Straniero Prize and the Prata Prize for Fiction. She has also written children's books.Profile
Her work has been translated into German, Polish and English. She is on the editorial staff of Nuovi Argomenti, a major literary journal in Italy.
Works Il libro di Teresa (Teresa’s Book), 1995 La terra dei dinosauri (The Land of the Dinosaurs), 1998 Il viaggiatore (The Traveller; short story) in anthology Italville: New Italian Writing (Exile Editions, Toronto), 2005 Maisons sans plus de porte (reportage) in Last and Lost (Noir sur Blanc, Paris), 2007 Pecore vive (Live Sheep; short stories), 2007 - longlisted for the Strega Prize Eravamo bambini abbastanza (We Were Young Enough), 2012 - winner of the Lo Straniero Prize and the Prata Prize for Fiction
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